Mercure moins fripon, Mars moins voluptueux;
Jupiter brula moins d’une flamme adultere,
Venus meme reçut une culte plus severe.
De Lille. Imagination. Ch. vi.
Romulus ut saxo locum circumdedit alto,
Cuilibet huc, inquit, confuge tutus erit.
Ye Lares, aid us! Mars, thou God of Might!
From murrain shield the flocks—the flowers from blight.
For thee, O Mars! a feast shall be prepared;
Salt, and a wether chosen from the herd: